Bhagat Singh’s India in ferment
The voracious reader evolved with new knowledge and newer experiences, and grew as a fearless partisan.
Jawed Naqvi
Wajid Ali Shah’s great grandson dies of Covid-19
NEW DELHI: The great grandson of Awadh’s last king Nawab Wajid Ali Shah and grandson of Nawab Birjis Qadr, Prince...
Impunity isn’t exactly popularity
Friends condole with friends with great concern that India has gone fascist.
To draw the battle lines now
Are the opposition in India for a war with China or are they gloating over a stick they may have found to beat a Teflon rival
Changing an unchanging world
Skin-deep modernity and deep-rooted atavism go hand in hand in many current societies, and India is no exception.
A tale of misleading names
Prashant Bhushan knows he cannot fight the fight alone. Who then could be his allies to cover the flanks?
Not Shia, not Sunni, not Jewish
Where do Shia-Sunni theorists disappear when Shia Iran supports predominantly Sunni Palestine envisaging Jerusalem as its capital?
Modi blows hot and cold at neighbours
Indian PM claims his soldiers gave a befitting reply “from LoC to LAC” to those who attempted to transgress India’s borders.
Ruminations from the TV couch
Alexander was made to speak in chaste Urdu — reward for being a foreigner — while India’s King Porus was...
Situationer: Two events that would sadden Iqbal
Modi looks set to face even more vehement criticism.
There are Hindus and Hindus
Mixing religion with politics in India has led to communal violence, banning of books, subversion of secular laws, and hollowing
Indian actress Kum Kum dies at 86
NEW DELHI: Kum Kum, a much-loved Indian actress whose long career fetched her roles opposite wrestler Dara Singh and...
A date with toxic alchemy
Is Modi’s date with Ayodhya his way of shifting the media’s focus from the Kashmir anniversary?
Ideology and the pandemic
‘Nadia is a communist.’ And so? Didn’t we like the Romanian girl’s captivating smile? ‘Yes, but, you know, communists are trained
A Hindu rashtra without ice
Modi cannot see a world without a daily plot to win a state assembly or parliament, come pandemic or high water.
The pendulum of tricky times
The enthusiasm with which Indian officials are showering rose petals on a dream is so palpable that it can be seen from a
Next item, Bihar and onward
Rahul Gandhi can be the spark to galvanise the opposition provided he doesn’t seek the political high ground for himself.
Is China telling Modi something?
What did Modi do to provoke China to suddenly send him the ‘courteous’ message?
India, China agree to restore tranquillity on border
The two countries’ foreign ministers hold talks.
A perilous stand-off to avoid
Had Indian leaders been more forthcoming with the truth, there would perhaps be a more informed polity.